Teenager Ricky Osagie, who died trying to save two girls from drowning, was remembered yesterday as the National Bravery Awards were presented in Dublin.

Thieves beat and taunted an elderly farmer in his home before stealing his shotgun and a small sum of cash in the early hours of Friday morning.

A Northern Ireland man was jailed for life by the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today for the dissident republican murder of a man shot dead in a church car park in Co. Donegal almost four years ago.

The Special Criminal Court has today ruled that statements made by a man admitting his part in the murder of a man in Co Donegal more than three years ago can be admitted in evidence.

Three men from the North have been arrested in the Republic after a major fuel-laundering plant was uncovered.